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  • Zippering effect holding note in VE Pro 11262 on my PC but not on my Mac

    First of all I have changed my Mac to a Mac Mini 2.0 Quad Core i7, much more powerful than my former 1st gen 2.66 Quad Core Mac Pro. I am running Mountain Lion 10.8.1, just released today but this happens in 10.8 as well.

    When I open a single instance of Play 3.0.39 and load just 1 patch, i.e. a Hollywood Orchestral Woodwinds Flute, I can play it with a 256 buffer and there is no zippering when I hold a note. If i do the same in this version of VE Pro on my Mac, ditto. But if I do the same with this version on my PC, I get the zippering. On thePC it is running from an SSD while on the Mac a regular 7200 HD.

    I have changed nothing else on my PC so I am bewildered. 

    EDIT: If when I connect, I choose a latency of 3 buffers instead of the 2 I have used until now , it is fine.  My RME HDSPe-AIO is now in a Sonnet Echo Express Pro PCI-e to Thunderbolt chasis, but as Thunderbolt is supposedly as fast if not faster than pci-e, I don't know why that would change anything. Also, in VE Pro on my Mac, I can still operate with NONE for the same audio card and it is still fine.

    Weird. Nothing I cannot live with but strange.


  • Sounds like a network latency/bandwidth issue. First of all, make sure you are not connecting over Wifi...


  • Martin, I am connected by an ehternet AFAIK, as I always have been. Coming out of my wireless router is two cales, one goes to the Mac Mini and one to the PC.

    If I new how to attach a screenshot here, I could just show you:) but in the server window it says Slave:192.168.1.68 JAY PC (64) as it always has.

    Is there a setting somewhere I am msissing since I went to Mountain Lion on the Mac?


  • I understand, but just make sure the Wifi is OFF on the Mac mini. Many people are connected over both physical and wifi, and sometimes the wifi connection has priority...


  • Martin, you are beyond brilliant, that was indeed the issue. Iturned Wi-Fi off and connected and all is well. Then I turned Wi-Fi back on so that both my Mini and my wiofe's iMac in the other room cn connec tto my network.

    Is that always going to have to be my procedure? I never had to do this before and as I say, I did not intentionally change any settings for my network.


  • You could simply run your wired network on a separate subnet. With both the wired and wifi on the same subnet, you are bound to run into issues.


  • EDIT: Apple sorted it out for me. Thanks, Martin.